Action at Pratt's Mill

The last action of the Revolution in this part of S.C. took place at Pratt's Mill, a grist mill on the Little River owned by Joseph Pratt. On October 30, 1781, an outpost of 30 Patriots at the mill under Capt. John Norwood was surprised by 30 Loyalists and Cherokees under Col. William "Bloody Bill" Cunningham. Norwood, who was wounded, was the only casualty on either side. The Patriots fled, leaving behind 30 horses and most of their weapons, and the Loyalists burned the mill. The Pratt family later rebuilt the mill, which appears in Robert Mills's Atlas of S.C. (1825). They later built another mill on Hogskin Creek, about 500 yds. N of the first mill. That mill operated throughout the 19th century before a flood destroyed it in 1908.

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